Louie Gohmert: “We had a statement from the White House spokesman yesterday at a White House press briefing in which he had said that…”

“We had a statement from the White House spokesman yesterday at a White House press briefing in which he had said that the Republicans have ``no one to blame but themselves.'' So, Mr. Speaker, I thought it would be helpful if we looked at the statements he made about the vast amount of crime in America disproportionately being committed by people who are illegally in the United States. First, the White House spokesman said it included--and he is talking about the President's bill and how if the House had passed that, then all our problems are over. And he said about the President's bill, it included a historic investment in border security. Well, let me help. Obviously, he is just not up on what the law said. He hadn't read it as I had. But what it did is it set forward a plan to have a plan made by Homeland Security within so many months. It has been a good while since I looked at it, but they had all kinds of time to put together a plan. And then that would be looked at by GAO, the Government Accountability Office, as I recall, and then they had so much time, a vast amount of time, to analyze that to see if the situational awareness and occupational control would be adequate under the plan that was being proposed by Homeland Security, the very people that have not secured the border so far. And then as time went on, I believe at the end of 5 years, it got really serious.…”